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10 Mar 2023, Sage Gateshead
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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ SSO 2022-23 Season Shostakovich Symphony No.5 in Gateshead

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich Symphony No.5 in Gateshead
19:30 Fri 10 Mar 2023 Sage Gateshead
Associate Conductor Alpesh Chauhan and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich's riveting Fifth Symphony.
Associate Conductor Alpesh Chauhan and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich's riveting Fifth Symphony.

Programme

Riveting. Enthralling. Defiant.

It’s impossible to separate Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony from its context. Written in response to criticism by Stalin’s regime, his artistic reputation – and possibly his life – hung on its success. It’s always a riveting, enthralling experience and our Associate Conductor Alpesh Chauhan is sure to draw out its black humour as well as its profoundly moving qualities. Before then, we’re taken to sunnier climes, bringing some Iberian authenticity to his portrayal of Cervantes’s great literary hero. Then, Richard Strauss’s light-hearted adaptation is sure to be a knockout – bleating sheep, creaking windmills, flying sequences and all!

This concerts ends at approximately 9:25pm.